Desired Obsession

He turned off the music in an entire club to get her attention.

She said no and walked away without looking back.

Neither of them was the same after.

Mason Slater is not who anyone thinks he is. At the precinct he is Sergeant Slater - controlled, respected, feared in the quiet way of someone who has never needed to raise his voice. At Club Noir he watches from the mezzanine. He keeps his distance. He keeps his secrets.

Until Ellisa Kingston refuses to come upstairs.

What begins as obsession becomes something neither of them has language for - because Mason has never let anyone close enough to need the language, and Ellisa has been running from the wrong things for long enough that she almost misses the right one.